[colophon: Vinegia {i.e., Venice}: Stampato per Stephano da Sabio 4to. [62] ff.. 1535] As one of the "Men of Cajamarca," Francisco de Xerez holds a very special place among writers on the earliest period of Spanish contact with the Inca of Peru: He was there from day one, a member of the very small band of men who left Panama with Pizarro and Almagro to seek fame and fortune in South America. At Cajamarca he participated in the taking of the Inca leader Atahuallpa, the slaughter of his army, and the sharing of the ransom demanded of the Inca nation for the return of their leader. By training a notary public and practiced writer, he was by choice Pizarro's secretary/confidant, the two having been close since at least 1524, when they met in Panama; and when in 1534 he returned to Spain, he took with him his share of the wealth of Atahualpa, a broken leg, and a tale to tell that was significant, stirring, and in fact tellable by no other man. He conceived of his book as being at once a socially and politically useful celebration of Pizarro's deeds and his own, a celebration of the glory of Spain as that was expressing itself in a remote and wondrous New World, and as a => true entertainment cast in the tradition of the romance of chivalry; not surprisingly, it was a blockbuster. Xerez's eyewitness account of the conquest of Peru was originally published in Spain in 1534 in Spanish as the Verdadera relación de la conquista del Peru y Provincia del Cuzco llamada la Nueva Castilla. Demand for news of the new, "exotic" kingdom of Peru, which had only been conquered in 1532, was fo
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1535. [62] leaves. Small quarto. 19th-century pebbled pigskin, spine gilt. Boards and extremities lightly rubbed. Some minor soiling, a few leaves lightly toned. Two small tears, on titlepage and second leaf, neatly repaired. Very good. Men of Cajamarca: two eyewitness accounts of events As one of the "Men of Cajamarca," Francisco de Xerez holds a very special place among writers on the earliest period of Spanish contact with the Inca of Peru: He was there from day one, a member of the very small band of men who left Panama with Pizarro and Almagro to seek fame and fortune in South America. At Cajamarca he participated in the taking of the Inca leader, Atahualpa, the slaughter of his army, and the sharing of the ransom demanded of the Inca nation for the return of their leader. By training a notary public and practiced writer, he was by choice Pizarro's secretary/confidant, the two having been close since at least 1524, when they met in Panama; and when in 1534 he returned to Spain, he took with him his share of the wealth of Atahualpa, a broken leg, and a tale to tell that was significant, stirring, and in fact tellable by no other man. He conceived of his book as being at once a socially and politically useful celebration of Pizarro's deeds and his own, a celebration of the glory of Spain as that was expressing itself in a remote and wondrous New World, and as a true entertainment cast in the tradition of the romance of chivalry; not surprisingly, it was a blockbuster. Xerez's eyewitness account of the conquest of Peru was originally published in Spain in 1534 in Spanish
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N.P., N.D, 1535. This work is a later summation of La Historia General y Natural de las Indias the first part of which first appeared in Seville beginning in 1535. Repair to lower right corner of title page; fore-edge moisture mark; repaired tear to A2 & K1 leaves (see images). From the distinguished Biblioteca de D. Pedro Ybanez Pacheco with his plate to title blank verso. Watermarked with three encircled stars above GP (as well as encircled NB & DB) probably the mark of A.G. de Barca, ca. 1749. Handsomely bound in half vellum with calligraphic particulars to spine.; Quarto 283x190 mm; 57,[ix] pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

Seville, 1535. Titlepage printed in red and black. Quarto. 17th-century vellum, yap edges, manuscript title on spine; recased, with edges (especially upper edge) of the binding repaired, new endpapers. Titlepage repaired along edges, with upper and lower blank margins replaced. Unevenly trimmed, often affecting the foliation or the chapter number in the upper margin, or the manuscript marginalia. Repaired tears in leaf 105, with a dozen words in facsimile; several other leaves repaired at edges, affecting a few words of text. Overall, a very good copy. In a morocco clamshell box, spine gilt. This famous work is the most extensive book on the New World written up to the time of publication, and is one of the chief sources to this day for many of the facts relating to the early history of the Spanish conquest of the New World. The colophon leaf is signed by Oviedo, as is found in some copies. Oviedo was a witness to that history from the beginning, having seen, as a young page at the Spanish court, the return of Columbus in 1493. In 1505 he went out to the Indies himself as an official, and subsequently served in a number of important administrative posts. Over the next three decades he kept extensive notes on the history of the Spanish in the New World and all he observed there, especially natural history and the Indians he encountered. He also interviewed all of the Spanish explorers to whom he had access. In 1526 he published a short work on the natural history of the Indies, followed nine years later by the present work. His industry provides an extraordinary description
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[colophon: Venetiis: In aedibus haeredum Aldi, et Andreae soceri] 8vo (16 cm, 6.25"). [16], 328, [10], [2 (blank)], 47, [1 (blank)], [44] ff.. 1535 Lactantius was a North African writer (ca. 240?-320), born a pagan and converted to Christianity, whose polished style earned him, during the Renaissance, the sobriquet of "the Christian Cicero." According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jerome admired his writings, judging their strengths and weaknesses as apologetics somewhat wistfully: "Would that he had been able to establish our teachings as well as he demolished that of others." The editio princeps of Lactantius was issued in 1465, and the first Aldine in 1515. Like that latter, this edition includes also a short "Apologetic" by Tertullian, with a preface by Giovanni Battista Egnazio; and it bears for the first time a new preface on Lactantius by Paulus Manutius. Renouard notes that => this is an excellent edition, better than the first Aldine of 1515, and that one of the editors, Onorato Fascitello, had consulted the manuscripts of Lactantius found at Monte Cassino in preparation for it. Spaces have been left for initials throughout, unaccomplished; the whole is in Aldine italic, and the Aldine dolphin and anchor is found both on the title- and the last page. In this copy gathering "a" is in duplicate. Evidence of readership: Scattered substantive marginalia in Latin to about leaf 140. Provenance: Note on front pastedown reads, "E libris C. Brinsden, 1737. Dr. Ferrari, Librarian to Lord Leicester . . . exchanged this with me and some other books for two books of Fronter
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[colophon: Venetiis: In aedibus haeredum Aldi, et Andreae soceri] 8vo (16 cm, 6.25"). [16], 328, [10], [2 (blank)], 47, [1 (blank)], [44] ff.. 1535 Lactantius was a North African writer (ca. 240Â–320), born a pagan and converted to Christianity, whose polished style earned him, during the Renaissance, the sobriquet of "the Christian Cicero." According to the New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jerome admired his writings, judging their strengths and weaknesses as apologetics somewhat wistfully: "Would that he had been able to establish our teachings as well as he demolished that of others." The editio princeps of Lactantius was issued in 1465, and the first Aldine in 1515. Like that latter, this edition includes also a short "Apologetic" by Tertullian, with a preface by Giovanni Battista Egnazio; and it bears for the first time a new preface on Lactantius by Paulus Manutius. Renouard notes that => this is an excellent edition, better than the first Aldine of 1515, and that one of the editors, Onorato Fascitello, had consulted the manuscripts of Lactantius found at Monte Cassino in preparation for it. Spaces have been left for initials throughout, unaccomplished; the whole is in Aldine italic, and the Aldine dolphin and anchor is found both on the title- and the last page. In this copy gathering "a" is in duplicate. Evidence of readership: Scattered substantive marginalia in Latin to about leaf 140. Provenance: Note on front pastedown reads, "E libris C. Brinsden, 1737. Dr. Ferrari, Librarian to Lord Leicester . . . exchanged this with me and some other books for two books of Fronter
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per Ioannem Patauinum & Venturinum de Ruffinellis, 1535. First edition of this dialogue "nunc primum impressus" in seven books written by the vexatious Dominican priest Girolamo Savonarola (1452-98) on God, faith, and ecclesia. The sixth book De vita futura treats punishment of the Bad and the glory of the Good.
Of this work there exist two redactions, both published posthumously: One incomplete in three books (Venice 1537), and this, complete in seven. Savonarola probably composed these consolations ca. 1497 (see Giovannozzi) -- the year he was excommunicated, and one year prior to his public burning at the stake in Florence.
Printed in roman type, 23 lines in single-column format, with side- and shouldernotes and with woodcut initials at the beginning of each book, this bears on its title-page a woodcut printer's device of a phoenix in flames facing the sun. Errata are printed on the recto of the final leaf.

Basileae: Joannes Valderus, 1535. Quarto, [34], 333, [1]. Second edition. Text in Greek, editor's notes in Latin & Greek. One of the most important works of late classical antiquity dealing with food, wine, and table customs, dating from the third century A.D. The book is a fictionalized symposium of twenty one artists, writers, musicians and surgeons, discussing all things that, according to Greek custom, should adorn a banquet. The names of the most famous gastronomers and most celebrated cooks are recorded, and the text of a recipe from a lost cookbook by Mithaecus is quoted -- the earliest recipe by a named author in any language. The virtues and qualities of various wines are the subjects of lengthy discourses. Table ornament and decoration are also treated. Rebound in modern half-vellum, text-block trimmed. Generally very good internally, with a touch of foxing to some leaves, and pages supple. With the bookplate of Anne Willan, noted authority on French food, founder of the prestigious Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne and, with her husband Mark, truly great cookbook collectors. This edition very scarce in the trade. [OCLC locates eight copies, only one in the US, at the University of Kansas; this edition not listed in Bitting, Cagle, or Vicaire].

Ex officina Eucharij Ceruicorni. Hardcover. B00MU41EFE In Latin. One of the first Humanist editions of the immortal 'Consolation of Philosophy.' 1535 first edition Ex Officina Eucharij Ceruicorni (Cologne, Germany), 4 1/8 x 6 inches tall hardbound, green marbled paper-covered boards over leather spine, gilt design and gilt-lettered green and red morocco labels to spine, [48], 399 pp. Modest soiling and edgewear to covers. Title page soiled, with early faded prior owner names. A couple of lines with faded early underlining. Otherwise, apart from mild age-toning, especially to margins, a very good copy of this rare and handsome post-incunable pocket edition of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, accompanied by commentaries (printed in Gothic type) by Flemish scholar and humanist Johannes Murmellius (circa 1480-1517) and scholar and father of northern European humanism Rodolphus Agricola (1443/44 -1485). OCLC (Nos. 702169404, 714944464 and 801129411) locates only three copies of this edition worldwide, at Yale, Bibliotheque Cantonale in Switzerland and Biblioteca della Fondazione in Italy. ~CC~ This was the first edition edited by Johannes Caesarius (circa 1468-1550), an important humanist at the beginning of the modern era. After his studies in Cologne and Paris, including a doctorate, Caesarius practiced medicine for a number of years before returning to teaching and writing about 1524 in Mainz. When this edition was published in 1535, he was teaching in Leipzig and was known for his textbooks on grammar and rhetoric. The author of the Consolation, Anicius Manl
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Michel Vascosan, Paris, 1535. 8vo, [24] leaves; text in italic; historiated woodcut initials. BOUND WITH: SCALIGER, LACRYMAE, Prosopopoeia Christianissimi Francorum Regis Francisci Valesii. Paris: Vascosan, 1534. 29, [1] p., [1] blank leaf; text in italic; historiated woodcut initials. The two works bound together in modern boards; a few inoffensive faint dampstains o/w a very nice clean copy. Quite rare: the only copy of the Lacrymae in America is that at Harvard, while the Nemesis is represented by two copies (Newberry and U. of Illinois). § Moreau IV, nos. 1418 and 1139; Cioranesco 20500 and 20499; M. Magnien, "Jules-César Scaliger et ses imprimeurs," Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, XLIV (1982), pp. 314 and 313. First editions of two of the earliest Neo-Latin verse productions by the celebrated humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558), father of the even more celebrated Joseph Scaliger. Scaliger was an Italian scholar and physician spending a major part of his career in France. He was the first to attempt a systematic treatise on poetry: "Poetices Libri Septem" (Geneva, 1561; Leyden, 1581; Heidelberg, 1607). The general principles of this work are derived from Aristotle whom he calls "imperator noster; omnium bonarum artium dictator perpetuus". Like Aristotle he makes imitation the basis of all poetry. As a physician he was much interested in botany and wrote commentaries on the treatises on plants of Theophrastes and Aristotle. In the iambic poem Nemesis Scaliger imitated the didactic poem Manto by Angelo Poliziano, a poem (first published in 1482) in which
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